Hon. Adam. Hamilton’s Message

Observation Post, Volume 1, Issue 30, 11 December 1942, Page 6

Hon. Adam. Hamilton’s Message

It gives me great pleasure to accept your invitation to extend to the officers and men of your Regiment, through ‘ ‘ The Observation Post,” the Season’s Greetings. For all of you, may it be a i happy Christmas, spent among I your people, and a brighter New Year in which the seal will be put on Victory. I compliment your Regiment on the initiative and pride in unit, which has produced and maintained “The Observation Post.” It is easy to find difficulties; it is easy to criticise, but constructive contribution to the esprit de corps of a Regiment, such as your paper, is worthy of high appreciation.

From the dark days of Dunkirk until the present, those who have said “It can’t be done,” have been consistently wrong. On the basis of pride in self, and pride in unit, on team work and comradeship, the foundations of victory have been laid by our fighting men in the field. “It can and will be done,” are the watchwords of that task. You, with me, I know have the same thrill of pride at the record of the New Zealand Division in Egypt. Particularly must you thrill at the record of our Artillery men; their work has been magnificently inspiring; Rommel has tasted their metal to his confusion. The part that our men played in successive hours of

crisis, was only, possible because of the team work and training built on pride in their units. So to your Regiment in the New Year I wish happy* days of training and organisation, so that if and when the time comes for you to play your part, as other units have played theirs before, the result will be another page added to the magnificent record of our fighting men. We all know in our hearts' that the cause is worth it all. To your paper also, I wish a successful New Year. ADAM HAMILTON.